In re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation, No. 10-2077; Third Circuit; opinion by Sloviter, U.S.C.J.; filed July 16, 2012. Before Judges Sloviter, Vanaskie and Stengel, District Judge, sitting by designation. On appeal from the District of New Jersey. [Sat below: Judge Brown.] DDS No. 59-8-xxxx [43 pp.]
This appeal involves the antitrust implications of an agreement by a manufacturer of a generic drug that, in return for a payment by the patent holder, agrees to drop its challenge to the patent and refrain from entering the market for a specified period of time.